# beste
## Basque
### Etymology

From Proto-Basque *bertze, possibly from the root *beR-. Compare berri (“new”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bes̺te/ [bes̺.t̪e]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -es̺te
* Hyphenation: bes‧te

### Determiner

beste (preposed)
* other

#### Derived terms

* beste barik
* beste bat arte
* beste batean
* beste behin
* beste hainbat
* beste hainbeste
* beste honenbeste
* beste horrenbeste
* beste kuku batek jo
* beste mundu
* beste munduko (“extraordinary”)
* beste munduko gauza
* beste oilar batek kukurruku jo
* beste orduz
* bestea (“the other one”, pronoun)
* besteak beste
* besteetan
* bestela (“otherwise”)
* bestela baitakoan
* bestela bezala
* bestela esan
* bestela esanda
* bestela esateko
* bestelako (“different”)
* bestelakotasun
* bestelakotu
* bestelakotze
* bestelan
* bestelaz
* bestenaz
* bestengusina (“younger female cousin”)
* bestengusu (“younger male cousin”)
* bestera
* besterako
* besteratu
* besterendu
* besterenganatu
* besterentzaile
* besterentze
* besterik ezean
* besterik ezinean
* besterik izan
* bestetar
* bestetara
* bestetaratu
* bestetasun
* bestetik (“on the other hand”)
* bestetxo
* bestetzuk

### References

* ↑ “*berr-” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk

### Further reading

* “beste”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
* “beste”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

beste
* inflection of best, the superlative degree of goed:
** masculine/feminine singular attributive
** definite neuter singular attributive
** plural attributive

### Anagrams

* beest

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

beste
* inflection of gut:
** strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular superlative degree
** strong nominative/accusative plural superlative degree
** weak nominative all-gender singular superlative degree
** weak accusative feminine/neuter singular superlative degree

## Middle Dutch
### Adjective

beste
* inflection of best:
** masculine nominative singular
** feminine/neuter nominative/accusative singular
** nominative/accusative plural

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English betst, betest, from Proto-West Germanic *batist, from Proto-Germanic *batistaz (adjective), *batist (adverb).

#### Alternative forms

* (early ME) betst, bettst, bezst
* best

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɛst/

#### Adjective

beste
* best; superlative degree of good

##### Descendants

* English: best
* Scots: best

##### References

* “best, adj. (sup.).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-17.

#### Adverb

beste
* best; superlative degree of wel

##### Descendants

* English: best
* Scots: best

##### References

* “best, adv. (sup.).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-17.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

beste
* Alternative form of beeste

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French beste, from Latin bēstia.

### Noun

beste f (plural bestes)
* beast, animal
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#### Descendants

* French: bête, b*t* (censored)
** Haitian Creole: bèt
** → Dutch: bête
** → Swedish: bet

## Northern Sami
### Pronunciation

* (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈpeːsːte/

### Verb

bēste
* inflection of beastit:
** first-person dual present indicative
** third-person plural past indicative

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Adjective

beste
* inflection of god:
** definite singular superlative degree
** plural superlative degree
* inflection of bra:
** definite singular superlative degree
** plural superlative degree

### Noun

beste n
* the best

#### Derived terms

* bestefar
* bestemor
* bestevenn
* bestevenninne
* det beste fra to verdener

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

Definite singular and plural of best.

#### Adjective

beste
* definite singular of best
** superlative degree definite singular of god
** superlative degree definite singular of bra
* plural of best
** superlative degree plural of god
** superlative degree plural of bra

##### Derived terms

* bestefar
* bestemor
* besteven, bestevenn
* besteveninne, bestevenninne

### Etymology 2

A clipping of bestefar m (“grandfather”) and bestemor f (“grandmother”). The first part also being from best (“best”).

#### Noun

beste m (definite singular besten, indefinite plural bestar, definite plural bestane)
* granddad

#### Noun

beste f (definite singular besta, indefinite plural bester, definite plural bestene)
* grandma

### Etymology 3

A nominal use of Etymology 1.

#### Noun

beste n
* best

### Etymology 4

From Middle Low German basten, besten.

#### Alternative forms

* besta (a-infinitive)

#### Verb

beste (present tense bestar or bester, past tense besta or beste, supine and past participle besta or best, present participle bestande, imperative best)
* to sew loosely, to sew together using only a few stitches

##### Related terms

* baste

## Old French
### Etymology

Probably a semi-learned term borrowed partly from Latin bēstia. Compare bisse (modern French biche), which was popularly inherited from a variant (bīstia) of the same word. An alternative hypothesis derives beste from an unattested Vulgar Latin variant form *bēsta (deduced through a supposed diminutive form bēstula), though this is unlikely as it would assume there was a second popular variant of bēstia (bīstia being well attested).

### Noun

beste oblique singular, f (oblique plural bestes, nominative singular beste, nominative plural bestes)
* beast, animal

#### Descendants

* Middle French: beste
** French: bête
* Gallo: bestt
* Norman: baête (Cotentin), beyte (Pays de Caux, Pays de Rouen), beet (Sark)
* → Middle Dutch: beest
** Dutch: beest
*** Afrikaans: bees
*** Jersey Dutch: bêst, beîśe
*** Negerhollands: beest
*** → Papiamentu: bichi
*** → Sranan Tongo: beist
** → Middle Low German: best
*** Low German: Beest
*** → Danish: bæst
*** → German: Biest
*** → Norwegian:
**** Norwegian Bokmål: beist, best
**** Norwegian Nynorsk: beist
*** → Swedish: best
* → Middle English: beeste, beste, beest, best, beast, beaste
** English: beast
** Scots: beast, baste, baist, baest, beist, best
** Yola: beast

## Portuguese
### Verb

beste
* inflection of bestar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative